Supervisor of the
Internship Programme (Japanese Division), Ca’ Foscari University of
Venice, 2011-.

Supervisor of the Ca’
Foscari Desk Japan (Italian Chamber of Commerce in Japan, Tokyo) and
Singapore (Italian Chamber of Commerce in Singapore), 2013-.

In charge of the agreement between the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Italy-Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

Research
interests

Japanese Language Teaching

Critical Pedagogy

E-learning

Business Japanese

Translation Studies

Contemporary Japanese Literature

Present
research projects and collaborations

Project leader (2008-):
"BUNPOHYDICT: Hypermedia Dictionary of Japanese Grammar" (Japan
Society for the Promotion of Science), Department of Asian and North
African Studies, Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Ca' Foscari University
Overseas Partner (2011-): "Reconstruction of Public and Intimate
Spheres in 21st Century Asia”, Global Center of Excellence (GCOE)-Kyoto
International Consortium for Asian Studies (KICAS), Dep. of
Sociology-KUASU, Kyoto University

Member of the scientific
and organizing committee (2012-15): “Rethinking Nature: Facing the Crisis
in Contemporary Japan” (The Japan Foundation); research, conference, staff
expansion, visiting professor, library project; Dep. of Asian and
North African Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

Member of the scientific and organizing committee (2015): “On 'Dialogues' in Japanese Language Education” as Chair of the Association of Japanese Language Teachers in Europe, Université Bordeaux Montaigne

Member of the scientific and organizing committee (2016): The 2016 Symposium on Japanese Language Education , "Japanese Language Education for Welfare (well-being)", as Chair of the Association of Japanese Language Teachers in Europe (AJE), and Board member of the Italian Association for Japanese Language Teaching (AIDLG), Ca' Foscari University of Venice.

Member of the scientific and organizing committee (forthcoming, 2017): The 15th International Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJES), as Chair of the Association of Japanese Language Teachers in Europe (AJE), and Convenor for Session 10th "Japanese Language Education", Lisbon.

Member of the scientific and organizing committee (forthcoming, 2018): The 2018 International Japanese Language Conference as Chair of the Association of Japanese Language Teachers in Europe, Ca' Foscari University of Venice.

Education
and training

Visiting researcher at:

Graduate School of Language Education and Information Science, Ritsumeikan University (July 2016)

29.03.2012: International
Careers Asia, career day for students and enterprises, Ca' Foscari
University of Venice (event coordinator).

25-26.02.2012: Rethinking
Nature in Contemporary Japan: Science, Economics, Politics,
international conference on Japanese Studies, Auditorium-Ca’ Foscari
University of Venice (member of the organizing committee)

12.03.2012; 10/04/2011: Ca' Foscari per il
Giappone, charity/fundraising event for the victims of the
11.3.2011 disaster in north-eastern Japan, Ca' Foscari University of
Venice (event coordinator)

25-26.10.2011: Contemporary
Japan: Challenges Facing a World Economic Power in Transition, international
conference on Japanese Studies, Auditorium-Ca’ Foscari University of
Venice (member of the organizing committee)

13.10.2014: "Mitate in
Japanese Picture Books' Translation: from the Perspective of Gianni
Rodari's Grammar of Fantasy Theory", Varieties of
"Mitate": Fiction, Social Reality, and Symbolism,
international workshop, Kobe University Brussels European Centre (KUBEC),
Belgium

29.08.2014:
"Jikohyōgen to tasharikai no tameno gengobunka katsudō: Itaria ni
okeru nihongo kyōiku o kēsu sutadi to shite"(Self-expression
and understanding of others for linguistic culture activity: a case study
of language education in Italy),14th International Conference of
the European Association of Japanese Studies (EAJS), Ljubljana,
Slovenia

20.06.2014: "Translating Japanese Children Literature: a Few Case
Studies", East Asian Translation Studies Conference, University
of East Anglia, Norwich, UK